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παροψίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροψίς παροψίδος

Structure: παροψιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/yon

Sense

  1. a dainty side-dish

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀμφιβόλωσ δ’ εἴρηται τὸ παρὰ τῷ Ξενοφῶντι ἐν πρώτῳ Παιδείασ, φησὶ γὰρ ὁ φιλόσοφοσ ’ προσῆγεν αὐτῷ παροψίδασ καὶ παντοδαπὰ ἐμβάμματα καὶ βρώματα καὶ παρὰ τῷ τὸν Χείρωνα δὲ πεποιηκότι τὸν εἰσ Φερεκράτην ἀναφερόμενον ἐπὶ ἡδύσματοσ ἡ παροψὶσ κεῖται καὶ οὐχ, ὡσ Δίδυμοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ παρεφθορυίασ λέξεωσ, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀγγείου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 5 2:6)
  • ἐκπώματ’ ἔχεισ, παροψίδασ ἀργυρᾶσ, λεκανίδασ· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 2 1:2)
  • δειπνῶν δὲ δὴ ὁ Ἀστυάγησ σὺν τῇ θυγατρὶ καὶ τῷ Κύρῳ, βουλόμενοσ τὸν παῖδα ὡσ ἥδιστα δειπνεῖν, ἵνα ἧττον τὰ οἴκαδε ποθοίη, προσῆγεν αὐτῷ καὶ παροψίδασ καὶ παντοδαπὰ ἐμβάμματα καὶ βρώματα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dainty side-dish

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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